On Thursday night, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki highlighted a moment from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s appearance on C-SPAN, where a frustrated caller claimed Republicans were lying about illegal aliens receiving Medicaid coverage. In an effort to disprove Johnson, The Briefing host strangely cited information that Johnson did not specifically refer to when urging the caller go look for himself.
The incident in question occurred on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, where Johnson was pelted by a discontented caller from Colorado:
CALLER: My question is, if Republicans and Democrats can agree to a one-year extension to the ACA subsidies, removing this sort of talking point of illegal immigrants draining our resources, as you sit here and lie about this, would you support that bill and bring it to a vote on the House floor? This is a big question that I have for you. Thank you.
JOHNSON: Yeah, well, I'm not lying. I'm telling you the truth. And you can go look at all the documents yourself. Don't look at Republican paperwork. Look at the Congressional Budget Office who said that we had at least 1.4 million illegal aliens draining the resources from Medicaid.
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